Introduction 1. Learning to Be Deaf 2. Images of Being 3. A Different Center 4. Living in Others' World 5. A Changing Consciousness 6. The Meaning of Sound 7. Historically Created Lives References Index
In this wonderful book, we see Deaf culture from inside out and from outside in at the same time--a miracle and a delight. -- Harlan Lane, author of When the Mind Hears: A History of the Deaf
Carol Padden is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. Tom Humphries is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and the Teacher Education Program at the University of California, San Diego.
A fascinating glimpse into a world unfamiliar to most of us.
*New York Times Book Review*
To be deaf, it seems obvious, must be to live in a world of
silence. That, say the authors of Deaf in America, is where most
people get it wrong… [Padden and Humphries] challenge their readers
to imagine a world, one with a ‘different center’—one in which
ability or inability to hear is not at the core. The thing that
links it all together is sign language, which Deaf in America
contemplates, illustrates, and celebrates.
*Washington Post*
A long, painful experience of hearing intolerance has generally
kept Deaf culture fairly closed to outsiders, even sympathetic
ones. But now Padden and Humphries…have written a charming small
book that invites the rest of us at least part way in… A most
welcome addition to that very small shelf of books that truly
illuminate the experience of being deaf.
*Psychology Today*
Through the use of folklore, apocryphal stories, poetry, jokes, and
discussion of split factions and advocacy organizations, Padden and
Humphries gracefully explain how deaf culture works, what it means
to its members, how they define themselves within it, and how they
interact with the world outside. Providing rare insight into this
universe of silence, this volume conveys the joy and satisfaction
that many deaf people have in their lives and shows that being deaf
is not a handicap that most hearing people think.
*Booklist*
In this wonderful book, we see Deaf culture from inside out and
from outside in at the same time—a miracle and a delight.
*Harlan Lane, author of When the Mind Hears: A History of the
Deaf*
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